The North Darfur Emergency Response Rooms Council and Tina Locality said that approximately 15,000 families are trapped amid ongoing air and ground attacks across the state.
Clashes, confrontations and reciprocal airstrikes have intensified recently in the northern localities of Um Baru, Tina and Kernoi, particularly following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) activation of a drone-launching platform at Geneina Airport, the capital of West Darfur.
In a joint statement, the council noted that Tina Locality and neighbouring areas are experiencing some of the harshest humanitarian conditions, amid escalating ground attacks and drone strikes targeting water sources, healthcare facilities, markets and villages inhabited by civilians.
The statement explained that “the closure of roads, disruption of markets and loss of livelihoods have left families unable to meet even their most basic daily needs. This has forced residents to flee these localities and surrounding areas under extremely harsh conditions, without adequate guarantees of safety or access to essential necessities.”
The council added: “We are facing a humanitarian tragedy that is expanding day by day. Families have fled their homes without being able to take sufficient belongings with them; children have been forced to abandon their schools and familiar environments; while women, elderly people and patients are enduring the hardships of displacement, with no adequate shelter, food, water or healthcare.”
